Plastic barrel taking-out manipulator for blow molding machine

By designing a plastic bucket removal robot that includes a rotary mechanism and pneumatic grippers, the problem of insufficient adaptability and stability of plastic bucket models in the existing technology is solved, and high-precision, stable removal and flexible handling of plastic buckets of different models are achieved.

CN223559052UActive Publication Date: 2025-11-18ZHANGJIAGANG DEMAN MACHINERY TECH CO LTD
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Application Number
CN202423119751.3
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Utility models(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2024-12-18
Publication Date
2025-11-18
Estimated Expiration
2034-12-18

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Technical Problem

The existing blow molding machine's plastic bucket removal robot is difficult to adapt to different models of plastic buckets, resulting in high clamping force requirements, poor positional accuracy and stability, especially large plastic buckets that have tilting problems during removal.

Method used

A plastic bucket removal robot was designed, comprising a connecting plate, first and second rotary mechanisms, pneumatic grippers, and a chuck. The combination of pneumatic grippers and the chuck enables the gripping and limiting of the plastic bucket, while the rotary mechanism improves direction and stability. The telescopic drive structure ensures positional accuracy.

Benefits of technology

It improves the size adaptability of plastic buckets, ensures positional accuracy and stability during the retrieval process, avoids tilting of plastic buckets during transportation, and enhances the flexibility and automation of use.

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Abstract

The utility model discloses a plastic bucket take-out manipulator for a blow molding machine, which comprises a connecting plate, a first rotating mechanism, a first rotating plate, a second rotating mechanism, a second rotating plate, a pneumatic clamping finger and a chuck, the first rotating plate is horizontally arranged at the bottom of the first rotating mechanism, and the pneumatic clamping finger is horizontally arranged at the bottom of the first rotating plate. Clamping arms extending downwards are arranged at the two ends of the pneumatic clamping finger respectively, the second rotating plate is vertically arranged on the inner sides of the clamping arms in a turnover mode, the second rotating mechanism is arranged at the bottoms of the clamping arms to drive the second rotating plate to turn over, and baffles vertically extending in the direction of the inner side of the second rotating plate are arranged at the two ends of the second rotating plate; the telescopic driving structure parallel to the length direction of the second rotating plate is vertically arranged on the baffle, the clamping head is arranged at the end of the telescopic driving structure, the plastic bucket can be clamped through the second rotating plate, the two sides of the plastic bucket are locked through the clamping head, and the position precision of the plastic bucket and the stability in the taking-out process are guaranteed.
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Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model relates to blow molding machine field especially is blow molding machine with plastic bucket taking out manipulator. BACKGROUND

[0002] Plastic bucket usually utilizes blow molding machine to carry out blow molding production. After blow molding machine opening mould, utilize taking out mechanism to take out the plastic bucket after forming. In prior art, the utility model discloses a double station chemical plastics bucket blow molding machine of application No. CN2018203957009, and it is just through mechanical hand to carry out the taking of plastic bucket, but cannot satisfy different model plastic buckets.

[0003] The self weight of large plastic bucket is high, and the clamping force requirement of mechanical hand is high when taking out. In addition, in order to satisfy the taking out of different model plastic buckets, the clamping structure is relatively large, and when clamping slightly smaller model plastic buckets, the position precision of plastic bucket in the clamping structure cannot be guaranteed, and the stability is poor, so that the position precision of unloading after carrying cannot be guaranteed, and improvement is required. UTILITY MODEL CONTENTS

[0004] The utility model mainly solves the technical problem to provide a kind of blow molding machine with plastic bucket taking out manipulator, the taking of plastic bucket is carried out, the size adaptability of plastic bucket is improved, and the position precision and stability of plastic bucket in the process of taking out are guaranteed.

[0005] To solve the above technical problems, one technical scheme of the utility model is provided: provide a kind of blow molding machine with plastic bucket taking out manipulator, comprising: connecting plate, first rotary mechanism, first rotating plate, second rotary mechanism, second rotating plate, pneumatic clamping finger and chuck, the first rotary mechanism is set at the bottom of connecting plate, the first rotating plate is horizontally arranged at the bottom of first rotary mechanism, the pneumatic clamping finger is horizontally arranged at the bottom of first rotating plate, the two ends of the pneumatic clamping finger are respectively provided with the clamping arm extending downward, the second rotating plate is vertically arranged on the inner side of clamping arm and can be turned over, the second rotary mechanism is arranged at the bottom of clamping arm and drives the turning over of second rotating plate, the two ends of second rotating plate are provided with the baffle vertically extending to the inner side of second rotating plate, the baffle is vertically provided with telescopic drive structure parallel to the length direction of second rotating plate, and the chuck is arranged at the end of telescopic drive structure and located at the inner side of baffle.

[0006] In a preferred embodiment of the utility model, the second rotating plate adopts a rectangular structure.

[0007] In a preferred embodiment of the utility model, the first rotary mechanism and the second rotary mechanism respectively adopt rotary air cylinders.

[0008] In a preferred embodiment of the utility model, the chuck adopts a circular rubber block.

[0009] In a preferred embodiment of the present application, the second rotating plate is provided with a damping pad.

[0010] In a preferred embodiment of the present application, the telescopic drive structure is a telescopic cylinder.

[0011] In a preferred embodiment of the present application, the telescopic cylinder is provided with an external thread at the front end of the shell, and the external thread is provided with a nut located at both ends of the baffle, and the baffle is provided with a through hole corresponding to the telescopic cylinder.

[0012] In a preferred embodiment of the present application, the connecting plate is mounted on the mechanical arm.

[0013] In a preferred embodiment of the present application, the connecting plate is mounted on the three-axis linear module.

[0014] The beneficial effects of the present application are as follows: the plastic bucket taking manipulator for the blow molding machine can clamp the plastic bucket through the second rotating plate, and lock the two sides of the plastic bucket through the chuck, which can ensure the position accuracy of the plastic bucket and the stability during the taking process, improve the adaptability to the width of the plastic bucket, avoid the inclination problem of the plastic bucket during the carrying process, and also use the first and second rotating mechanisms to reverse the plastic bucket, which is more flexible. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0015] In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the following will briefly introduce the drawings needed to be used in the embodiment description. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can also be obtained from these drawings without creative labor, wherein:

[0016] Figure 1 is a structure schematic view of a preferred embodiment of the plastic bucket taking manipulator for the blow molding machine of the present application;

[0017] Figure 2 is a structure schematic view of another preferred embodiment of the plastic bucket taking manipulator for the blow molding machine of the present application;

[0018] Figure 3 is a structure schematic view of another preferred embodiment of the plastic bucket taking manipulator for the blow molding machine of the present application. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0019] The technical solutions in the embodiments of the utility model will be clearly and completely described below, obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the utility model, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the utility model, all other embodiments obtained by the person skilled in the art without creative labor belong to the protection scope of the utility model.

[0020] Please refer to Figures 1-3 The utility model embodiment includes:

[0021] As Figure 1 The blow molding machine plastic bucket taking manipulator shown in the figure, include: connecting plate 1, first rotary mechanism 4, first rotating plate 2, second rotary mechanism 6, second rotating plate 7, pneumatic clamping finger 5 and chuck 8, first rotary mechanism 4 sets up at the bottom of connecting plate 1, can adopt screw fixed, stable structure.

[0022] The first rotating plate 2 is horizontally arranged at the bottom of the first rotary mechanism 4, and the rotation of the first rotating plate 2 on the horizontal plane is driven by the first rotary mechanism 4. The pneumatic clamping finger 5 is horizontally arranged at the bottom of the first rotating plate 2, and is fixed by a screw, so that the pneumatic clamping finger 5 rotates within a certain angle range with the first rotating plate 2, and reverses during the plastic bucket taking process.

[0023] The clamping arm 3 extending downward is arranged at both ends of the pneumatic clamping finger 5, and the second rotating plate 7 is vertically arranged on the inner side of the clamping arm 3. The relative movement of the clamping arm 3 is driven by the pneumatic clamping finger 5, and the relative movement of the second rotating plate 7 on both sides is driven, so as to realize the clamping and releasing of the plastic bucket.

[0024] As Figure 1 The second rotating plate 7 is provided with a shock pad 9 on the inner side, and the shock pad 9 can be a shock absorbing cotton pad or a shock absorbing rubber pad. The shock pad 9 is in contact with the surface of the plastic bucket, which can distinguish the clamping force and avoid the problem of clamping marks on the surface of the plastic bucket.

[0025] The second rotary mechanism 6 is arranged at the bottom of the clamping arm 3 to drive the overturning of the second rotating plate 7. In the embodiment, the second rotary mechanism 6 is located outside the bottom of the clamping arm 3, and the second rotating plate 7 is located inside the bottom of the clamping arm 3, so as to avoid the occupation of the space inside the bottom of the clamping arm 3 by the second rotary mechanism 6, and improve the adaptability to the size of the plastic bucket. The first rotary mechanism 4 and the second rotary mechanism 6 respectively adopt rotary air cylinders to rotate by 90 °, realize the rotation reversing of the plastic bucket in two directions, are more flexible to use, and have low operation cost.

[0026] In the embodiment, the second rotating plate 7 adopts a rectangular structure, and has a large length, and is good in adaptability to large plastic barrels. The second rotating plate 7 is provided with a baffle 10 vertically extending to the inner side of the second rotating plate, and the baffle 10 is vertically provided with a telescopic driving structure 11 parallel to the length direction of the second rotating plate 7, and the chuck 8 is arranged at the end of the telescopic driving structure 11 and located at the inner side of the baffle 10. During clamping of the two sides of the plastic barrel by the second rotating plate 7, the telescopic driving structure 11 is used to drive the chuck 8 to limit and lock the other two sides of the plastic barrel, so as to ensure the position accuracy of the plastic barrel and the stability during taking out, and avoid the inclination of the plastic barrel during carrying.

[0027] As shown in Figure 1 , the chuck 8 adopts a circular rubber block, and elastically contacts and limits the side of the plastic barrel. In the embodiment, the telescopic driving structure 11 adopts a telescopic air cylinder, and can be controlled in telescopic mode by using a PLC and a solenoid valve, and has high automation degree.

[0028] In addition, the baffle 10 is provided with a through hole corresponding to the telescopic air cylinder 11, and assembly is convenient. The telescopic air cylinder 11 is provided with an external thread at the front end of the shell, and the external thread is provided with a nut 12 located at the two ends of the baffle 10, so that the telescopic air cylinder 11 can be conveniently adjusted and limited in the axial direction, so as to adapt to plastic barrels of different models and ensure locking of the two sides of the plastic barrel.

[0029] As shown in Figure 3 , in the embodiment, the connecting plate 1 is installed on a mechanical arm 13, and the mechanical arm 13 can adopt a five-axis mechanical arm to realize carrying during taking out of the plastic barrel.

[0030] As shown in Figure 2 , in the embodiment, the connecting plate 1 is installed on a three-axis linear module 14, the connecting plate 1 is moved by the three-axis linear module 14, the plastic barrel is taken out from the mold, and is transferred to a specified position.

[0031] In summary, the plastic barrel taking-out mechanical hand for the blow molding machine can take out the plastic barrel on the blow molding machine, improve the size adaptability to plastic barrels of different models, and ensure the stability during taking out of the plastic barrel.

[0032] The above is only an embodiment of the utility model, and does not limit the patent range of the utility model, and any equivalent structure or equivalent process conversion according to the content of the utility model specification, or direct or indirect application in other related technical fields, is also included in the patent protection range of the utility model.

Claims

1. A robotic arm for removing plastic buckets from a blow molding machine, characterized in that, include: The device comprises a connecting plate, a first rotating mechanism, a first rotating plate, a second rotating mechanism, a second rotating plate, pneumatic grippers, and a chuck. The first rotating mechanism is located at the bottom of the connecting plate. The first rotating plate is horizontally located at the bottom of the first rotating mechanism. The pneumatic grippers are horizontally located at the bottom of the first rotating plate. Each end of the pneumatic gripper has a downwardly extending gripping arm. The second rotating plate is vertically mounted inside the gripping arm and can be flipped. The second rotating mechanism is located at the bottom of the gripping arm to drive the flipping of the second rotating plate. Each end of the second rotating plate has a baffle extending vertically inward. A telescopic drive structure parallel to the length direction of the second rotating plate is vertically mounted on the baffle. The chuck is located at the end of the telescopic drive structure and inside the baffle.

2. The plastic bucket removal robot for a blow molding machine according to claim 1, characterized in that, The second rotating plate adopts a rectangular structure.

3. The plastic bucket removal robot for a blow molding machine according to claim 1, characterized in that, The first rotary mechanism and the second rotary mechanism each employ rotary cylinders.

4. The plastic bucket removal robot for a blow molding machine according to claim 1, characterized in that, The clamp is made of a circular rubber block.

5. The plastic bucket removal robot for a blow molding machine according to claim 1, characterized in that, The second rotating plate has a shock-absorbing pad on its inner side.

6. The plastic bucket removal robot for a blow molding machine according to claim 1, characterized in that, The telescopic drive structure uses a telescopic cylinder.

7. The plastic bucket removal robot for a blow molding machine according to claim 6, characterized in that, The front end of the outer shell of the telescopic cylinder is provided with an external thread, and nuts are provided on the external thread at both ends of the baffle. The baffle is provided with through holes corresponding to the telescopic cylinder.

8. The plastic bucket removal robot for a blow molding machine according to claim 1, characterized in that, It also includes a robotic arm, on which the connecting plate is mounted.

9. The plastic bucket removal robot for a blow molding machine according to claim 1, characterized in that, It also includes a three-axis linear module, and the connecting plate is mounted on the three-axis linear module.